[Zope] Formatting columns of SQL result

25 Aug 1999

      I'm looking for a way to format *columns* from a SQL query
differently.  Sorry if this is a FAQ - but I did not find it neither
in the SQL nor in the DTML documentation.

The standard way of turning the result of a SQL query into a table is
something like this:

        <!--#in query_sql-->
            <tr>
                <!--#in sequence-item-->
                    <td><!--#var sequence-item--></td>
                <!--#/in-->
            </tr>
        <!--#/in-->

Especially all <td>'s are formatted equally. I'm looking for something
like this (which is illegal in Zope):

        <!--#in query_sql--><!-- select foo,bar from table-->
            <tr>
                <td color="white"><!--#var sequence-item[0]--></td>
                <td color="black"><!--#var sequence-item[1]--></td>
            </tr>
        <!--#/in-->

The code above assumes that the result has at least two columns and
formats them differently.  Any clues?

-- Christian

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